Platte River Revival

The day of planting is part of the Platte River Revival.

The North Platte River doesn't run through Casper like it did earlier this year. “Because we moved the river about 80 feet to the west and corrected some bank erosion issues, we have new riverbank in this stretch with a gravel pathway and five new wetlands," said Jolene Martinez, director for the Platte River Revival in-river construction project...

More than 600 volunteers on Saturday morning picked up trash, placed fencing around trees, hauled off bad trees and sowed good seed to crowd out bad grass for the ninth annual Platte River Revival day.

The origin of the first Russian olive tree brought to Wyoming has been lost to history, but its frustrating legacy has not.

Casper City Council discussed how to spend its $3.7 million share of county consensus funding during its Tuesday work session. Council agreed to put $1 million toward continued restoration efforts along the North Platte River, another $1 million toward the installation of a new scoreboard and ribbon board system at the Casper Events Center and $1...

Casper City Council has unanimously approved $450,000 toward design and construction efforts at multiple Platte River Revival sites. Colorado-based Stantec consulting will be tasked with providing geomorphic, environmental and cultural surveys for the Morad Park, Wyoming Boulevard, Water Treatment Plant, Izaak Walton and Knife River stream restoration priority sites...

Casper City Council on Tuesday unanimously agreed to sign and submit a Wyoming Business Council community enhancement grant application for North Platte River restoration funds. Now that the city council has given its consent, the city of Casper will ask the Wyoming Business Council for $500,000 that the city wants to use to help chip away at the $12...

The city of Casper may be looking to the Wyoming Business Council to help fund certain North Platte River restoration and construction projects. Officials say the city is trying to attain a $500,000 community enhancement grant that the city would use to chip away at the estimated $12...

At a recent city council work session it was noted that the North Platte River through Casper was once deemed a dead river. It's come a long way since then thanks to years of hard work and planning. Jolene Martinez, is assistant project manager for the city and Tuesday she asked council for a $100,000 contribution toward phase two of the river restoration master plan, a plan that she says will be

There's a revival project along the North Platte River in Casper Saturday morning.